Exam 14: Culture

Gen enjoys owning a micro-refrigerator,which is small enough to fit almost anywhere.Gen believes that the efficient use of space is one of the characteristics that any good product should have.With respect to the functional areas of a cultural system,Gen is focusing on ________ as a variable in selecting products.

Products are winnowed out as they make their way down the path from conception to consumption,a process called ________.

Define the term "fashion system."

________ consumption occurs with objects and events that are considered to be ordinary and everyday.

Every year,the students at a prestigious engineering school remove a car from the parking lot and place it on the highest point of the roof of the main engineering building.The students have been doing this for decades,but not once has anyone ever confided to an outsider how it was done.This is a classic example of a ritual.

According to the trickle-down theory,fashion moves from the upper classes to the lower classes.

Fashion with an extremely long acceptance cycle is considered to be classic.

A professor was given an administrative warning after he made an inappropriate joke about Princess Diana shortly after her death.Students were likely upset because they saw Princess Diana as a profane individual worthy of special attention and respect.

All of the following are subsystems in a culture production system EXCEPT a ________ subsystem.

Movie and restaurant reviewers,magazine editors,retail buyers and DJ's are considered ________ because they filter information.

A female writer applies a well-known myth of Western culture to a novel using modern characters.Use this concept of a culture production system (CPS)to explain how this writer will market her novel to readers.

Explain the difference between collecting and hoarding.